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Description: | A copper-alloy chateleine of possible late Saxon or early medieval date (S. West, 1998). The object consists of an irregularly-shaped hanger with part of a copper-alloy chain attached at the top. The upper section of the hanger has a scalloped top edge, below which are three circular holes. Below this section is a much narrower waisted section. This widens out into a band with a point on each vertical edge and a raised ridge above and below. The bottom section has a scalloped horizontal edge and contains four circular holes, from which the now-missing chains and keys would originally have hung. The surviving length of chain is attached to the central hole at the top and comprises five linked S-shaped loops of copper-alloy wire. The object has a black coating, which probably represents a corroded tinning or silvering. It measures 18.3mm high by 19.6mm wide and 2.1mm thick. It weighs 3.2g. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 850
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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